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US Olympic hero Nancy Hogshead launches petition calling for WNBA to restrict gender eligibility
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
Olympic swimmer Nancy Hogshead created a Change.org petition that accumulated over 11,000 signatures as of the reporting date. The petition calls on the WNBA to clarify eligibility rules to explicitly include only biological females. The WNBA's current eligibility policies do not contain explicit language restricting participation based on biological sex.
